skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hear you, but...

I understand what you are feeling when you contemplate the wonder of humankind's technological achievements, which, by some measures, necessarily narrow, far surpass the capabilities of any other species. It's worth reflecting on this feeling, which comes reflexively to anyone who is presented with the intellectual challenge that you answered with your complete response above.

When Darwin first published his theory of evolution, he got a lot of pushback from people because of this exact feeling.

19th century British humans resented being "relegated" to the relations of apes. They scorned Darwin for saying it.

Why?
Sorry, I was using YOLO in the narrow WSB sense of betting on low-likelihood, outsized gains. If you have the chance to risk 5k to get out of 100k student debt, why not do it, if you’re disillusioned by the system.
When everyone pouring their life-savings into index funds stops working, it's going to hurt very hard.
Melvin was also heavily short Bed Bath and Beyond, they probably covered some of their shorts this morning because they were overall down a lot.
This was fun to play around with, but I wish that there was also a mode to arrange the notes in the circle of fifths, since that places similar key centers next to each other. In the chromatic layout when you perform a chord progression (e.g. try C E- F G7 C) the movement is very slight on the circle of fifths but jumps around here.
12 minute post and already downvoted to hell. Hello, fb employees.
Flow and stock are different.
It’s a throwaway account and I just quit my job, I read for years that you can’t beat the market.
David Gerard made this point a few years ago interviewing with the Financial Times on his book Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain:

Decentralisation is the paramount feature in bitcoin, but it turns out that that's a bad idea that's really, really expensive, because it turns out that a tiny bit of trust saves you a fortune.

"Decentralised" isn't a useful buzzword in a lot of ways, because it turns out that you want to be a part of society.

https://soundcloud.com/user-544122300/gerardpod

Thought's ocurred to me that advances in communications technologies serve to undermine social trust mechanisms.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6jqakv/communi...

Others as well:

https://medium.com/@SeanBlanda/medium-and-the-reason-you-can...

(https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/71xbx2/sean_bl...)

And the late David Cornwell, a/k/a John le Carre:

the veterans of the S.I.S. [the British Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6] think, which is yes, kompromat was done on him. Of course, kompromat is done on everyone. So they end up, the theory goes, with this compromising bit of material and then they begin to release parts of it. They set up an ex-MI6 guy, Chris Steele, who is a patsy, effectively, and they feed him some stuff that's true, and some stuff that isn't true, and some stuff that is demonstrably wrong. Which means that Trump can then stand up and deny it, while knowing that the essence of it is true. And then he has a stone in his shoe for the rest of his administration.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x8tns/control...
That's not the defence though. The defence is 'I legitimately believed the election was stolen in Georgia, therefore, pressuring state officials to investigate said issues' doesn't itself constitute a crime.

It's entirely plausible that people 'get things wrong' in the real world.

But once you have a guy who will believe everything that's to his benefit, and claim that everything not to his credit is a lie ... well then you have a problem.

It's really, really worrisome how many intelligent people do not see quite obviously the game he is playing.

It's one thing for people who watch Judge Judy every day to maybe have difficulty with a lie so forcefully presented, but most people should know better.

It's also interesting how it's viewed from outside the bubble of the US where the ration of 'believers' is vastly lower, and yet, at the same time there are even die-hard cohorts of them outside the border as well.

There was a 'Stop The Steal' min-march in Montreal Canada of all places.
I guess TSLA is still funny?
Step 1 - Buy leveraged options at the right time

Step 2 - Do not buy leveraged options at the wrong time [0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/be-attractive-dont-be-unattra...
Verifying what software is actually running is orthogonal to having that software be open for the public to inspect. You can have closed source software and still have a problem verifying what is running.
Tagline has a spelling error in it (you => your). Good luck with your venture.
It's written in Go. That's a HUGE dependency.
You only pay taxes on your yearly capital gains so I don't think it makes sense to pay estimated taxes. I could lose those gains. Not sure where AMT cones in
The flavors of kool aid is an excellent metaphor that I appreciated. I even chuckled.

Not sure why you are being down voted, so I commented/posted.
A memo tells you nothing and staff will forget it in 6 months time. The key metrics by which they measure staff performance is what would be interesting to see what the real culture is.
Any scoring system will be aggressively manipulated by billion-dollar corporations, so I'm not sure how effective it will be in the long run. Apparently Apple's laptops already score well, which is a point against the system.
Oh my god. Why are they always so terrible at this?!
Can employees decide the direction and usage of a product? Absolutely not.
This is a silly PR stunt by the Facebook management
Ken Griffin made $6 billion during the pandemic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/kenneth-c-gr...
Makes me wonder what's the cheapest most efficient application class chip out there. Esp8266 ? I assume it's not the best but I'm not too aware of the MCU world.
Just FWIW the bus runs the other way: https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/problem-solving/homeward-boun...
Haha. ^^ Great timing!

Great minds not only think alike,
But also I truly hope our comments receive at least one organic like.
Listen to 80’s music for a bit if you think the current decade has a lock on existential dread.

Or just the theme song of “Good Times”, a sitcom from the 70’s.
A typical lottery in the USA has odds of like 1 in 300 million. The fact alone that more than 100% of float was shorted put the odds of this happening way above any chance you have of winning the lottery. Suggesting that just because there was an aspect of chance involved that it is on par with a lottery is ridiculous.
You can't argue or present evidence regarding the election on Twitter if it's favorable to Trump right now.
It's lightly better than gambling, since you still end up with ownership of something
Were those calls purchased by retail, or by someone trying to cover a short?
First approximation - 50 base pairs of RNA? (Unless I am reading the supplement wrong)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943892/

"The present study describes the directed evolution of replicating RNA enzymes that operate with an exponential growth rate of 0.14 min−1, corresponding to a doubling time of 5 min. Each parental enzyme can give rise to thousands of copies per hour, and each of these copies in turn can do the same, all the while transmitting molecular information across the generations."
I don't remember The Martian movie having many examples of bad physics (other than a "severe windstorm" on a planet with very thin atmosphere; a mistake carried over from the book). It just didn't mention a lot of the science that made the book interesting.

I don't remember too many glaring examples from The Expanse either. They generally have artificial gravity when under thrust and not when they don't. When slowing down, they generally have the engines pointed towards the thing they're approaching. The characters in high-G maneuvers don't look the way people would actually look in those situations, but that's hard to fake without actually sticking actors in a centrifuge so I'm willing to give them a pass.

Scientific accuracy isn't really the focus of the show, though. It's a show set in space that needs reasonably accurate physics in order to have a plausible setting and not detract from the the story and the characters.
Do you like it? Where is the science backing up it's ability to keep you focused?
That was the first phase, now you are banned if you suggest or present evidence contrary to the outcome.
This is like a workplace responding to overwork-related crises (rage quitting, health problems, suicides, etc) by telling people that they need to do some wellness courses.

And then telling them to do more work.
Council fast-tracking hazard pay for grocery workers in Seattle
Thanks for mentioning.

I dug up the paper with the technical details.

I did not find anything suggesting it'd be used productively for the satellite if it manages to deliver.
Do you have anything about that you can tell/link?

I'd be curious what the initial design weight was, before the thermal expansion problem that caused the aluminium block.

As for the data rate, it seems a mechanically simplistic fold-out mirror (released during deploy, say with a current pulse into a shape-memory-alloy torsion spring to delay the unfolding until after the ejection, or just a simple friction break and a normal torsion spring) could significantly decrease the beam width when made from e.g. zerodur and fabricated as an offset parabolic dish. Slightly modifying the refractive collimating optics of the current design should make that approach possible.

I'd expect vibration in space to be a negligible issue, so an edge-mounted mirror should be stiff enough.

https://elib.dlr.de/135960/
https://elib.dlr.de/135960/1/1150604.pdf
Any chance you saved/upvoted that post? I can’t find it but would love to read it.
Cartography: Solving Software Development Scaling
I'll second that... one of the things that you might encounter is a tube that has been out of service for a long time will have quite a bit of gas leaked inside, and you might have to let the ion pump run for days to get the leakage current down to an acceptable level before turning on the rest of the circuitry. My friend actually ended up using a high voltage supply one particularly troublesome tube, but in the end we were able to get it going... it just needed a lot of ion pumping.

The bandwidth of the tube is VERY narrow (on the order of a few hertz, which means you have to be quite close on the frequency of the crystal oscillator before it can lock in.

You also want to be careful when adjusting for the Zeeman frequency to pick the right peak, or you will end up with locked to the wrong transition, and your clock will drift ,although in a very precise amount of drift ;-)

It's fun, once it works. It's easier the second or third time, of course.
Just adding to the dogpile here, but Taboola and Outbrain are the absolute scum of the Earth.

Google, Facebook, and others get a lot of justified criticism for abusive business practices and invasion of privacy, but at least they also provide some kind of arguably valuable service in return. Taboola and Outbrain on the other hand are malignant parasites, utterly devoid of any imaginable redeeming qualities.

If I could flip a switch and erase both companies from existence, I would absolutely do it without a moment's hesitation.
Isn't a stolen election precisely a conspiracy?

I would prefer not to believe the election was stolen. I wanted Trump out, and Biden seems a reasonable replacement. I also debunked a number of the fallacious statistical 'proofs' the election was stolen. Believe me I would like nothing better than to believe everything is fine. But especially Navarro's report makes me unable to dismiss the allegations off hand with a clean conscience. I've also looked into the PA court's reasons for dismissing Trump's lawsuit from back in Sept, and the reasoning is all based on technicalities and does not address the substance of the concern that the loosening of the rules has opened the door to major fraud. The fact all the coverage of the lawsuits is frivolous dismissal or even in some cases the courts rule in favor does nothing to set my mind at ease.
> Why is this downvoted?

HN is predominantly ad-tech or ad-tech related people. It's uncomfortable for them.
I think you have it backwards. First their government was untrustworthy, then they stopped trusting them. Not the other way around.

And this is not a problem of developing countries only! Developed countries have had their governments turn on them in a surprisingly short time. It can get to the point where a people can't change their government, the government being the institution with all the money, power, and guns.
Here's the forensic report from Allied Security Operations Group. Michigan politicians did everything in their power to keep this hidden, but a judge ultimately released it. This story was blackballed by MSM and censored on social media.

https://depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/antrim_michi...
SCC Insight provides an incredibly thorough, non-partisan analysis of this policy proposal. The analysis probably applies to other cities considering similar policies, not only Seattle.
Thank you for your comments. I’ll try to improve!
That certainly makes sense. Thanks for pointing that out.
I skipped classes and did a mechanical engineering degree and also a CSC degree. Do I count? Daily lattes are great. They're just coffee and milk.

The people who aren't doing well aren't the ones who didn't drink, lived at home and did math degrees as far as I can tell
Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech
It's not clear to me that laser links would require reorienting substantial portions of the satellites mass. From a theory standpoint the only thing that would need to be moved is the lens, and even that may not be necessary[1]. While I'm not familiar with the intricacies of point to point satellite communication, I'd venture that it's within physical possibility to maintain fiber like levels of bandwidth over large distances in LEO.

While a major leap, Starlink could potentially service internet backbone traffic at substantially lower latencies in such a world.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased-array_optics
They'll just stick it under a radome.
Huh, I looked up the word. хуй?

Looks like Russians and Americans can find common ground on thinking Chinese last names look like "penis", even if we're making fun of Wang and they're making fun of Hui.
> including from Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus.

"I didn't think the leopards would eat my face" could be the theme of 2021.
Are you guys looking to launch a premium plan? Or how else do you plan to stay alive?
Are there any good examples of configure.ac macros that would be useful to study?
this could be an interesting project to agree on a portable subset of a modern language that can be either interpreted or compiled in the background so quickly that you wouldn't mind. Something like portable-rust. Could replace bash/m4/whatever else auto tools use (and it uses a lot of stuff bolted on)

Would also drive contributors as just mentioning a new languages on your README floods your issue tracker these days :)
How exactly is the possibility of vote dumping and vote flipping eliminated?
They will probably use the infusion of money to just ride out this raid and make a mint when the wsb bubble pops, which it inevitably will. To say that the hedge fund is "near failure" is the same as saying they did not fail. If they bridge this gap they win double.
Do lottery entrants have influence on their probability of winning?
Burden of proof is on the accuser, and when the Trump side arrived in court over 60 times they didn’t bring any evidence. Occam’s razor says they don’t have any actual evidence, since if they did they would have brought it to court.
I don't thing anyone is suggesting that this will fix the systemic issues which plague the younger generations today. While this probably isn't going to cause much harm to Goldman Sachs you can be sure the people who'd been shorting gamestop weren't too happy about it and enough random and unorthodox trading will certainly keep day traders on their toes. I'm not about to go gambling with what little spare cash I've got, but I'm not going to discourage others from trolling wallstreet by doing it. It's their money to lose.
Nibbling
The horizon limitation is primarily regulatory.
Given that limitation, it doesn't make sense for them to extend the cone closer to the horizon than their flat phased array can do.
I just glanced at their contributor docs. It seems they get around providing a full build by using their patch system. The changes must be submitted via PR then referenced in a running pfsense build. Seems like a painfully slow workflow, but I could be wrong (never tried it myself).

Contributor Docs Link: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/pull-...

I'm not opposed to closed source projects, but no one appreciates false advertising.

Out of curiosity, How should a project of this nature properly advertise? Would an asterisk next to "open source" with a clarification be enough?
Gen-Xers have also had a notoriously awful employment economy.
Hi I'm starting a dev tool company and trying to solve the problem of scaling software development. In other words I'm looking for a way to keep complex code-bases understandable.

Software development in the beginning is always super quick. As the app balloons in size, and more devs join, you end up spending more and more time just reading code, making sure you understand what's going on.

Looking to talk to some people to see what their processes and pain points are!
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and have worked with Ben and Eric in their role at OpenAI).

For folks that find this topic interesting, I think that Maciek’s (GKE PM) talk at NEXT with Twitter on 15,000 node clusters has a ton of great info [1].

Just having lots of nodes is pretty hard, but having lots of nodes and lots of churn is harder. The diagram Maciek puts into the talk and a related blog post is really the key: scale has many dimensions.

For OpenAI, they’re making a reasonable choice as operators of a multi tenant cluster (shared amongst researchers). You want to own the other software on the box, do rolling upgrades, and then get out of the way.

Many other folks though, really need a much more dynamic system. Watch Maciek’s talk!

[1] https://youtu.be/3AAgWBvM5L0
I'm not sure 'evolved' is the right word here. Thanks to the 'XHR error's, I guess I'll never know ... but I doubt that a chart will decide the question.
>how would they bootstrap a new development environment?

The worst part of the collapse is going to be remembering everything in my vimrc file
There is no comparison. LA county is the majority of the LA metro, while NYC is the minority.
Likely senators?
Wrong, see Matt Levine's explanation of this from today: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-25/the-ga...

> This does not necessarily mean a lot of people are doing evil illegal nefarious naked shorting! Really, I promise! There is no special limit on shorting at 100% of shares outstanding! Here is an explanation of how options market makers (discussed below) are allowed to short without a locate, but I want to offer an even simpler explanation. There are 100 shares. A owns 90 of them, B owns 10. A lends her 90 shares to C, who shorts them all to D. Now A owns 90 shares, B owns 10 and D owns 90—there are 100 shares outstanding, but190 shares show up on ownership lists. (The accounts balance because C owes 90 shares to A, giving C, in a sense, negative 90 shares.) Short interest is 90 shares out of 100 outstanding. Now D lends her 90 shares to E, who shorts them all to F. Now A owns 90, B 10, D 90 and F 90, for a total of 280 shares. Short interest is 180 shares out of 100 outstanding. No problem! No big deal! You can just keep re-borrowing the shares. F can lend them to G! It's fine.
Love this sort of thing, though less for the post-collapse aspect and more for the dependency-free nature, which provides a certain amount of freedom.

I don’t like that seemingly all accessible bootstrapped projects still rely on non-bootstrappable silicon (like the 8086 here). Does anyone know of an effort to bootstrap the actual computational substrate (i.e. the silicon, or something which serves the same purpose but isn’t silicon)?
I can confirm that Yelp does not work well in Austin. In fact, I would be surprised if it worked well outside of certain small enclaves in California.

Someone who moves to Austin and expects to build their entire life around Yelp is likely to be extremely disappointed.

That said, I am a member of the “Austin is full” crowd, so y’all are welcome to come visit, if you like. But housing costs are rising rapidly and the locals are getting priced out of their own city.
It's not a non-issue, it's just a different security model. You need to audit all of the code going into the data center, but once it's there it's (ideally) a hermetically sealed safe space.
Orthokeratology does both in developing children, according to a couple studies referred to in their link.
> Does anyone else hear the echoes of Bill Gates "Trustworthy Computing" memo[1] in this? Granted, it wasn't written by Zuck which would have given it more "oomph" as they say, but still the idea that "Crap, this externally applied criticism of our product now has become to onerous to continue ignoring."

Not at all.

Nothing about Windows as a money-making product was antithetical to improving security; if anything "making secure computing more readily available to the masses" was in line with "making computers more readily available to the masses" which is something that, for all the many faults of their OSes and business, Microsoft has been pretty successful at.

Facebook is surveillance capitalism. That's the business model. No privacy violations, no Facebook as a multi-billion dollar company.
So things haven't changed in a while?
In 2000, Florida gave us just one of many examples of how paper ballots alone are not always reliable. As I said in my previous comment, the machines are used to provide clean, uniform ballots. They also would speed up counts considerably if not for people deliberately sowing distrust of the machines.
Does anyone have a good physical intuitive explanation for why laser and radar data bandwidth to space are such huge pipes?

I have always been amazed at how satellites quote bandwidths on the order of Tb/s, when I don't fundamentally see how they're so different from gigabit fiber, copper, etc. You've still got some oscillation going on and a receiver that has to "decode" it just the same.

Is there a physically intuitive way to understand why the bandwidth of these methods is so great?
HN works pretty well for the types of discussion it hosts but I'm not sure if it would be as good if it were a general-purpose politics forum. I suspect techno-politics tend to be less emotional compared to other areas of politics.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS, not on EC2.

Locally attached disks are not ephemeral to instance reboots/power failures. However, the disks are wiped after instance terminations. On the official EC2 product pages this is called "instance storage" not "ephemeral storage."
Actually, engineers in big companies have more control than it seems. After all, privacy is not only about intent, but also execution, and care needs to be taken at every level.

Privacy requires engagement from all levels, and I'm this case Facebook seems to be doing the trigger thing after f*** things up quite a bit in the past.
With 1/300M you're likely thinking of a jackpot. Winning anything is much lower. Powerball is 1/38 for the lowest payout. And in the same way, there will be a lot of people around breakeven point in the GameStop lottery, some small winners and some people who are now set for life.
The most meaningful comparison is CSA:

NY is 22.5M

LA is 18.7M

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area
Earth at a Cute Angle